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Re: apt cron script changes



On Friday, April 21, 2006 8:46 AM, Hiren Patel <hiren@obsidian.co.za> wrote:
> does this mean the patch wont get considered until i make it POSIX
> compliant?

Note that I'm not an apt maintainer, if that matters. However, given that
it's not policy compliant in its current state, either it needs to be POSIX
compliant, or:

> im using things like '[[' for convinience, but things like '=~' to do
> some sanity checking.
> is there a chance of changing the shebang to specificy /bin/bash and
> make it acceptable to the policy? and still use bashisms?

Explicitly using /bin/bash is fine. The only thing you can't do is use
bashisms in a script with a /bin/sh shebhang line.

Adam



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